Daylight has raised an 80 million dollar Series B to grow its AI-native security operations platform, which pairs AI agents with human security engineers. The round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and brings the New York-based company’s total funding to 120 million dollars.
What Daylight does
Daylight’s platform, called Aura, uses AI agents to monitor security systems, investigate suspicious activity and help respond to threats. Security engineers build, run and customise the agents for each customer’s systems, workflows and risks, and handle decisions that need human judgment.
The company says it detects threats within seconds and responds to and contains incidents within minutes, up to ten times faster than traditional managed security providers. Customers can choose a fully managed service, a co-managed model alongside their own teams, or forward-deployed engineers.
The platform also covers the AI tools enterprises use themselves, with protection against prompt injection, risky MCP integrations and unusual AI-driven activity. Those alerts run through the same workflow as identity, endpoint, cloud and SaaS signals.
Who backed the round
New investor Okta Ventures joined the round, alongside existing backers Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Vintage Partners and Maple Capital. The company did not disclose a valuation, which is estimated at about 400 million dollars.
Daylight says its revenue has grown more than 40 times over the past year, driven by demand from large enterprises and AI-native companies. Its customers include Lovable, LastPass, Rogo, dLocal and Miro.
The company will use the new funding to expand in the United States, enter markets across EMEA and APAC, grow its security engineering and technology teams, and accelerate development of its platform. It also plans a new office in London.
Why the round matters
Security teams are under pressure from both rising threats and the limits of AI tools. A July 2026 ISC2 survey found 65 percent of cybersecurity professionals using AI spend more time deciding whether to trust its recommendations than a year ago, while 63 percent spend more time verifying its outputs.
“The future of security operations won’t be defined by how many people a company can deploy, but by how effectively AI agents can take on increasingly complex security work.”
Hagai Shapira, co-founder and CEO of Daylight
Daylight’s pitch is that agents can take on routine security work while engineers keep control of complex decisions. That combination, rather than headcount alone, is what the company says will define the next generation of security operations.
The founders behind Daylight
Daylight was founded by Hagai Shapira and Eldad Rudich, who met while serving in an elite Israeli military intelligence unit. Shapira was an early product leader at cybersecurity company Torq, and Rudich was Torq’s first employee and vice president of research and development.
